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THREE POPLARS ON PLYUSCHIKHA STREET - Brief Encounter II: Briefer Encounter... A rural Russian woman in a less than perfect marriage travels to Moscow and strikes up an instant rapport with her taxi driver.
DUTCHMAN - A black guy on the NY subway is minding his own business when an unstable white woman comes along. From a one-act stage play, and doesn't even attempt to escape its theatrical roots. Made in Britain -- I suspect because they couldn't get it made in the US at this time. It's bracing stuff
MILLENNIUM MAMBO - Gorgeous and melancholy - the best tonal combination
DARLINGS! - Firstly, there's stuff in this that does not fly in 2025 and shouldn't have flown in 1984 either. What on Earth were they thinking? Drawing a veil over that, however, it's an all-over-the-place comedy about kids at war with their parents that flirts with incomprehensibility at times, but is never boring and odd enough to be memorable
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